BC Wildfire: Feds Rarely Match Charitable Donations When Disasters Strike In Canada

Mia Rabson  

Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau encouraged people over the weekend to donate to the Canadian Red Cross to help British Columbians affected by raging wildfires and he made a similar appeal for Ontario and Quebec flood victims earlier this year.

However unlike many international disasters like the earthquakes in Nepal two years ago or in Haiti in 2010, Canada's appeal for domestic donations isn't shored up by a pledge that the government will pony up an equal amount of cash to match the individual donors. Read more

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I find it reprehensible that the Canadian Government places Canadian disaster survivors below those of foreign country disaster survivors. Don't you? 

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